2013-11-29

Now the time has come for me to open the box toone of my recent deliverys from Fire forge games.The product is called Foot seargents.I must also add that me and my friend Jonas splittedthe box with teutonic warriors and one of thesprues on the pictures is from this box.The box contain 48 multipart 28 mm figures.I am really satisfied with the figures and they areall beutifully detailed and the sprues are crisp.For the graphics on the cover I think they arequite nice and inspirational.For myself I will use these figures when Iwill start playing my Scandinavian medievalproject. I will probably mix heads and limbs with these figures from GW and conquest games.The rating is very high and I don´t miss anythingin this product. I give 4 out 5.

2013-11-28

On tuesday I played a game of Secrets of the third Reich(Sotr).I invited my friend Jimmy to test this game and he was very thrilled. Our mutual opponent Håkan played the english.Me and Jimmy lined up a battlegroup of "evil" germans. :)The points were set to 30 and Håkan got the advantage ofbattle with a Cromwell-tank.Three rifle squads with panzerfaust-support and one teamof panzerschreck and also a team of machine gun.To direct all this we also lined up a command squad.The english had a similiar line up but also got support ofheavy infantry in armour and PIAT(portable rockets).The goals were to occupy buildings and hold them.The germans were very aggressive and in the beginningwe were unlucky with the hit-dices but managed to hold downtwo groups with suppressing fire.The germans advanced through the ruins and managed to reach good positions. The english were hold back for amoment but started to move on several fronts but gothit in the middle of a cornfield.Three heavy infantry out of five were shot down. In the southern sector the germans stormed one english rifle squad and knocked them out.The critical action was in the corner of a ruin in thecenter and it was decided when the english lost hand tohand combat in a artillery crater.Very intense playing and a lot of fun.

At work I found some very useful leftovers of mesh.The squares are measured 5x5 mm.I will probably use them when I will buildMechas for Secrets of the third reich but alsoto use for smaller scales.The mesh is made out of 3 mm metal threadbut still very flexible.

2013-11-27

Last week a got a nice package when I ordered somefigures together with my friend Jonas.I ordered WW2 red army in the scale of 28 mm fromWargames factory. First I must say that the illustration on the box and alsothe graphical work overall has improved from theearlier releases from this company(german infantry andamerican infantry etc).I really like the sprues and it gives me a lot of inspiration of what I can build with these further on.The details are very good and also the range of thefigures and weapons are very nice.The total number in this box to build are 31.The only thing that I miss is a old water cooled Maxim-machine gun but this I can order elsewhere.The rating is high and I am looking forward building thesefigures. I give the maker 3,5 stars out of 5. :)I will soon publish the finished russian figures on thisblog.

2013-11-25

It is now close to Christmas-time and second hand shops sell more and more scenery to this vacation.I found some nice houses to use with my 15mm figures. It was also really cheap andcosted only 2 Euro each.I also went to a another second hand shop and bought some nice looking palmtrees.The palmtrees are in the scale of 28mm andwill be a nice additional scenery playingskirmish between pirates.

I found a nice tank in one of my old drawers.The tank i readypainted and a russian T-62Mmain battle tank from the cold war era.It will be a nice additional support-unit onthe battlefield when I will play Force on forceor streetfighting-skirmish between terrorists and other units. The scale is 1:72 and the manufaturer is the italian Esci.

I found some old unpublished inspirational picturesillustrating bits that became more skeleton-unitsto support my Vampire counts-army.I have also made som legs from scratch to make someof the figures complete.They are not painted yet and will also be fitted withshields and basing.